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DAMAGE INCURRED BY FLOODING AND ICE IN 1979 (March 1979) - Hamilton Street Dam, Lehigh River upstream of Hamilton Street Bridge, Allentown, Lehigh County, PA
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DAMAGE INCURRED BY FLOODING AND ICE IN 1979 (March 1979) - Hamilton Street Dam, Lehigh River upstream of Hamilton Street Bridge, Allentown, Lehigh County, PA
Description
Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources; Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service; Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company; Yearby, Jean P, historian; Stott, Peter H, historian; Miller, Robert G, photographer; Lowe, Jet, photographer
Depicted place Pennsylvania; Lehigh County; Allentown
Date Documentation compiled after 1968
Dimensions 4 x 5 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HAER PA,39-ALLEN,3A-26
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • Significance: The Hamilton Street Dam is an integral part of the Lehigh Canal, which was of major economic importance in the development of industry in the Lehigh Valley in the nineteenth century. The V-shaped, wooden and rock crib dam provided all the water needed to operate the canal's Section 7 which passes through Allentown and Bethlehem.
  • Survey number: HAER PA-89
  • Building/structure dates: 1829 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: 1829-1942 Subsequent Work
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/pa1635.photos.135235p
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Object location40° 36′ 29.99″ N, 75° 29′ 26.02″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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